Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 7

Low unrestricted reserves: -2
Reasonable growth: +1
Fundraising costs low: +3

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 18

NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE

NOC is a marine science research and technology institution which undertakes integrated sea level science, coastal and deep ocean research and technology development. NOC contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge of the ocean and support education and training of scientists, engineers and marine professionals and engaging the public with the science of the ocean and its implications.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending since inception
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return

Financial issues to consider:

Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E	Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff
30/09/23	£85,401	£85,202	£199	£2,628	£27,273	£17,649	2.5	673
30/09/22	£78,717	£74,093	£4,624	£0	£27,074	£15,622	2.5	647
30/09/21	£67,141	£66,760	£381	£0	£23,734	£13,345	2.4	638
30/09/20	£80,938	£57,585	£23,353	£394	£23,353	£5,387	1.1	653

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 3.4%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 3.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £130,000-£140,000
Liabilities/Assets: 59%
Liabilities/Income: 45%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 65%
Reserves/Spending: 2.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.9

Asset Split ?

Established: 5 years

www.noc.ac.uk

02380596666

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Education/Training

GiG Classification

Land or water management

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belize, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Germany, Grenada, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Throughout England And Wales, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States, Vanuatu, ....more

Who it helps

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Subsea Enhanced Autonomous Mapping (SEAMless)
£103,011	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10011940
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Squads of Adaptive Robots (SoAR)
£123,111	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10012626
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - FAIR EArth Sciences & Environment services (FAIR-EASE)
£14,921	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10039779
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Explaining and Predicting the Ocean Conveyor (EPOC)
£23,643	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10038003
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - MARINE BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT AND PREDICTION ACROSS SPACIAL, TEMPORAL AND HUMAN SCALES (BIOcean5D)
£15,215	01/04/2022	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10048703
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DPLUS150: Ecosystem sensitivity and climate vulnerability for MSP in the BVI
£113,199	27/10/2021	The marine environment can be effectively managed using Marine Spatial Planning (MSP - similar in conceptto planning on land). However, extra tools are required to consider the impacts of human ....more The marine environment can be effectively managed using Marine Spatial Planning (MSP - similar in conceptto planning on land). However, extra tools are required to consider the impacts of human activities on marinehabitats. This project translates existing tools, which currently used to support MSP in Europe, for use in theBVI. The tools will be integrated into an existing framework used in the BVI and facilitate the production ofmarine spatial plans by the Government of the BVI.
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - DPLUS152: Coastal Resource Atlas 2021 and temporal analysis for the BVI
£92,732	27/10/2021	Marine habitat maps provide vital information on what is where. Consequently, marine habitat maps arenecessary for understanding the distribution of impacts, the planning of sustainable human actives ....more Marine habitat maps provide vital information on what is where. Consequently, marine habitat maps arenecessary for understanding the distribution of impacts, the planning of sustainable human actives at sea andthe placement of protected marine area. This project will combine recent high-value surveys of the physicalseabed with additional fieldwork to produce new and more extensive maps for the BVI marine environmentsurround. The fieldwork will also examine the change in marine habitats over time and their current condition.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Coastal-Oceans in Global Climate Models: Assessment and Analysis (CONGA)
£100,501	01/08/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V008552/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - A2I2 Extension: V&V of a semi-autonomous system in an operational environment
£80,038	01/04/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=90929

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 45-77

CLARE MARY PETRE HARBORD Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Retired

DANIEL JAMES HOOK Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Consultant

DAVID JOHN GEE Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director

DR RUTH SUSAN BOUMPHREY Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director

DAVID JEREMY DARROCH (Chair) Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Former Senior Executive

DAVID KEITH MCSWEENEY Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Director

MICHAEL DIXON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: College Principal, Other trusteeship: GREEN TEMPLETON COLLEGE,

PROFESSOR SIR IAN LAMONT BOYD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Scientist, Other trusteeship: UK RESEARCH INTEGRITY OFFICE LIMITED,

SARAH MICHELLE MCMATH Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Managing Director

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/09/2019, number: 1185265
Registered at Companies House on 02/07/2018, number: 11444362

Gift Aid

NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Filing Record

4 returns made; all on time

Main office

NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE
WATERFRONT CAMPUS
EUROPEAN WAY
SOUTHAMPTON
SO14 3ZH

Objectives

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY, IN EACH CASE ONLY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO:4.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, IN PARTICULAR ENHANCING THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES, AND THE OCEAN AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE EARTH SYSTEM, AND FACILITATING THE USE AND APPLICATION OF THAT KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING, PARTICULARLY BY:4.1.1.1 UNDERTAKING AND CAUSING TO BE UNDERTAKEN RESEARCH INCLUDING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT, EXPERIMENTATION, ANALYSIS, LONG-TERM OCEAN OBSERVATION, MONITORING, MAPPING, SURVEY AND MODELLING OF A HIGH INTERNATIONAL STANDARD AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL RESULTS OF RESEARCH;4.1.1.2 PROVIDING ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE INCLUDING RESEARCH SHIPS AND OTHER MEASUREMENT PLATFORMS AND SYSTEMS TO THE OCEAN SCIENCE COMMUNITY;4.1.1.3 OBTAINING, MANAGING, CURATING AND PROVIDING ACCESS TO DIGITAL DATA, SAMPLES AND OTHER SPECIMENS;4.1.1.4 BEING THE UK NATIONAL FOCUS FOR OCEAN SCIENCE, EXERCISING LEADERSHIP FOR AND PROMOTING CO-OPERATION WITH THE WIDER UNITED KINGDOM SCIENCE COMMUNITY, AND PROVIDING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL VISIBILITY AND EXPERT REPRESENTATION FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES;4.1.1.6 INNOVATION OR BY ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING INNOVATION;4.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN OCEANOGRAPHIC SCIENCES, AND THE OCEAN AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE EARTH SYSTEM AND RELATIONSHIP WITH PEOPLE, PARTICULARLY BY:4.1.2.1 CONTRIBUTING TO THE EDUCATION (PARTICULARLY POSTGRADUATE HIGHER EDUCATION), TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS, TECHNOLOGISTS INCLUDING THE SUPERVISION OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS;4.1.2.2 SUPPORTING THE BUILDING OF MARINE RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL CAPACITY IN OTHER COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD;4.1.2.3 COMMUNICATING WITH AND ENGAGING WITH THE PUBLIC IN RELATION TO OCEAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH SEMINARS, TALKS, LEAFLETS, PAPERS AND OTHER MEANS;

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